Sorry for my negligence folks.....What i did was download the tenbril uninstaller (
http://www.tenebril.com/downloads/) (trial version works for 15 days). run the program on my system and when it asked me to select what program to uninstall i clicked on the old version of the hoster program. It did the uninstallation with no glitches. When it was done i was finally able to run the hoster 3.0 setup program with no problem. i believe for some reason the original installation may have displaced some files that were essential for the installshield to upgrade/uninstall the program but by using another program with different routines it was possible to overide that problem. thanx
Islandstars
